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Featured Sci-fi: North of Sunset by Haley Ahern

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Featured Sci-fi: North of Sunset by Haley Ahern

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It’s the year 2125, and the gritty metropolis of Los Angeles is more divided than ever.

South of Sunset, Oleander Briggs exists in a drab reality of the Seventh Industrial Revolution and the demise of social media, where his monotonous life consists of working the factory assembly line for Fleur Industries—a mysterious company that sells flowers preserved in gold. His future, like so many of his generation, is bleak, but Oleander dreams of more.

When he unexpectedly catches the attention of Mr. Fleur—Fleur Industries’ elusive owner—his luck changes as he’s offered a job to work directly with the Fleur family at their palatial estate, North of Sunset. There, he encounters eccentric characters, extravagant wealth, and youthful beauty the likes of which he has never seen. The Fleur family may be his ticket to a better life—but at what cost?

North of Sunset asks how we exist in a world where one is forced to choose between living in luxury or the luxury of living.

Featured Sci-fi : No Way Home by Jasper T. Scott

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Featured Sci-fi : No Way Home by Jasper T. Scott

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The Celestial Voyager was supposed to be a dream vacation—until a navigational error left the ship stranded in uncharted space. And then the bodies started appearing…

Cut off from Earth with no way home, disgraced fleet Captain Elias Mercer must find a habitable planet before supplies run out. The ship’s AI claims there’s one nearby—but after everything that’s happened, can it be trusted?

Security Chief Lars Dekker is sent to explore, only to uncover something terrifying waiting on the surface.

Meanwhile, Cruise Director Lexi Rourke clashes with the captain as she tries to keep her passengers entertained, and oblivious, for as long as she can.

Among the passengers:

  • Gavin Trent, a desperate family man hiding the collapse of his finances and his marriage.
  • Nico Virelli, a con man on the run looking for his next mark.
  • Zara Quinn, a retired cyborg assassin with unfinished business aboard.

As the grim reality of their situation comes to light, paranoia spreads, giving rise to a chilling theory: what if the ship didn’t get lost by accident? Someone might have planned this… but why? And what were they hoping to find?

Before anyone can begin to answer the question, they discover that someone—or something—on board is killing the passengers.

A chilling sci-fi mystery where paradise turns to panic, and survival means facing the secrets you brought with you.

Featured Sci-fi : Project Charon 1: Re-entry: A Galactic Adventure by Patty Jansen

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Featured Sci-fi : Project Charon 1: Re-entry: A Galactic Adventure by Patty Jansen

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Previously published under a different pen name.

On the backwater world of Cayelle, Tina Freeman runs a shop with her son Rex: fifteen years old, half-human, half-android with a massive chip on his shoulder about having been born without arms or legs.

The shop makes a modest profit, but when a creditor turns up wanting his money back, everything goes pear-shaped.

She needs money, and needs it fast. Another creditor is impossible to find. That leaves her one option: to return to the world she fled fifteen years ago and Kelso Space Station, where her spaceship has languished for over fifteen years, and finally sell the thing.

Tina worked as scientific officer in the Federacy Force’s top secret Project Charon, and was forced out when she rang alarm bells about particles that escaped out of a rift to another universe.

As it turns out, the alien dust has been infecting people in her absence, causing profound changes in human behaviour.

When Tina re-surfaces at Kelso, her presence is a threat to those who still defend the project, including her ex-husband, and they want to shut her up, but her continued silence may well mean the end of civilisation.

Featured Sci-fi: Cut (The 1/2986 Dystopian Series Book 1) by Annelle Wendeberg

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Featured Sci-fi: Cut (The 1/2986 Dystopian Series Book 1) by Annelle Wendeberg

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I’ve reached my expiration date.

Not that it matters. We’re all going to die.

To Mickaela Capra, all words have flavours. Each emotion burns so fierce she carves them into her skin. The night she decides to press the blade deep enough, a stranger offers her a different kind of ending. One that makes her question everything she’s learned about the apocalypse.

But truth comes with a price. Two rules carved in bone: Kill. Survive.

Because the final wars were never meant to end.

Featured Sci-fi: Voyage (NASA Trilogy Book 1) by Stephen Baxter

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Featured Sci-fi: Voyage (NASA Trilogy Book 1) by Stephen Baxter

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In this sci-fi alternate history, JFK’s planned mission to Mars embarks on an intrepid journey—”a wonderful, patriotic tale of lost possibility” (Kirkus).

In Voyage, Stephen Baxter imagines how, if President Kennedy had lived, America might have gone on to send a manned mission to Mars in the 1980s. Created from true lives and real events, this richly detailed novel returns to the geniuses of NASA and the excitement of the Saturn rocket. Historical figures from Neil Armstrong to Ronald Reagan are interwoven with unforgettable characters who embody the promise of a young space program that held the world in thrall.


This sprawling tale tells the story of Gregory Dana, a Nazi camp survivor who achieves the dream of his hated masters; Gershon, the Vietnam fighter jock determined to be the first African-American to land on another planet; and Natalie York, the brilliant geologist/astronaut who risks love and career for the chance to run her fingers through the soil of another world.

Featured Sci-fi: Endless Winter Volumes One – Six by Grace Hamilton and Riley Miller

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Featured Sci-fi: Endless Winter Volumes One - Six by Grace Hamilton and Riley Miller

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A brutal Ice Age grips the Earth… and survival hangs by a thread.

When an ambitious experiment to reverse climate change spirals out of control, the planet is plunged into an eternal winter. With temperatures dropping to unthinkable lows and chaos sweeping through the remnants of civilization, Jarred and his daughter Hope have no choice but to head south—or die trying.

Their journey takes a deadly turn when their car skids off the icy road, leaving them stranded in a frozen wilderness. Battling the relentless cold and dwindling resources, they soon discover they’re not alone in the snowbound forest.

Fiona, a hardened survivalist, has built a refuge stocked with everything she needs to endure. But when Benjy, a determined forest ranger with secrets of his own, seeks her help, her fragile sanctuary is thrown into turmoil.

As marauders stalk the frozen rivers and a ruthless warlord tightens his iron grip on the desperate, Jarred, Hope, Fiona, and Benjy are forced to band together. Their only chance of survival lies in a perilous trek southward—through a landscape where the cold isn’t the only thing that kills.

Endless Winter: Parts I & II delivers over 1,900 pages of heart-pounding action, desperate survival, and a fight for humanity at the edge of extinction. Will they endure… or will the ice claim them all?